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2003 Governor General's Awards
The 2003 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit: Finalists in 14 categories (70 books) were announced October 20, the four children's literature winners announced and presented November 10, other winners announced and presented November 12. Each winner received a cheque for $15,000. The separate announcement and presentation of children's literature awards – four, recognizing text and illustration in English- and French-language books – was a novelty in 2003 (continued for at least a few years). The event at Rideau Hall, the Governor General's residence in Ottawa, was scheduled to begin at 10:00 on a Monday morning. "Children from across the National Capital Region will be invited to attend the event, which will also include readings and workshops related to children's literature." English-language finalists Fiction * Douglas Glover, ''Elle'' * Margaret Atwood, '' Oryx and Crake'' * Elizabeth Hay, ''Garbo Laughs'' * Jean McNeil, ''Private View'' * Edeet Ravel, ''Ten Thou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Governor General's Award
The Governor General's Awards are a collection of annual awards presented by the Governor General of Canada, recognizing distinction in numerous academic, artistic, and social fields. The first award was conceived and inaugurated in 1937 by the Lord Tweedsmuir, a prolific writer of fiction and non-fiction; he created the Governor General's Literary Award with two award categories. Successive governors general have followed suit, establishing an award for whichever endeavour they personally found important. Only Adrienne Clarkson created three Governor General's Awards: the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts, the Governor General's Northern Medal, and the Governor General's Medal in Architecture (though this was effectively a continuation of the Massey Medal, first established in 1950). Governor General's Literary Awards Inaugurated in 1937 for 1936 publications in two categories, the Governor General's Literary Awards have become one of Canada's most prestigious p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael MacLennan
Michael Lewis MacLennan (born June 5, 1968) is a Canadian playwright, television writer and television producer, best known as a writer and producer of television series such as '' Queer as Folk'' and ''Bomb Girls''. As a playwright he is a two-time nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama, and the only playwright to win the Herman Voaden Playwriting Competition twice. Career Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, MacLennan began his career as a stage actor. In his first theatre role at age 13, he was cast to play a woman, and later in his career he produced a short performance piece about his fear at the time that his parents would see the play and realize that he was gay. He moved to Victoria in 1986 to study English at the University of Victoria."Musing on a Queer Career". ''Victoria Times-Colonist'', July 2, 2003. His first full-length play, ''Beat the Sunset'', premiered at the Victoria Fringe Festival in 1993. It was later staged in Vancouver in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Song Within My Heart
''The Song within my Heart by Dave Bouchard'' is a children's picture book by David Bouchard with illustrations by Allen Sapp. It was first published in 2002 by Raincoast Books. A story about a young Cree boy, it is based on the memories of the illustrator as told to the author. Allen Sapp received a Governor General's Award for the illustrations in 2003. Plot Summary A young boy grows up in an average Cree household but has a very special bond with his grandmother. She takes her heritage very seriously and wants to pass the traditions and knowledge down unto her grandson. By doing so, she takes him to his first pow-wow. Through this cultural experience, he learns new things about his ancestry and does so by ways before he could not imagine. For instance, the people who play the drums at this pow-wow share their story through the rhythm and the beats of their drum. Not only does this young boy learn more about his heritage, he learns to look at things in a different perspective an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allen Sapp
Allen Sapp (January 2, 1928 – December 29, 2015) was a Canadian Cree painter, who resided in North Battleford, Saskatchewan. His art and his story have become known throughout Canada. His paintings tell a personal story, and many feature images of his grandmother. His work and life story have been the subject of a number of books and television documentaries. Early life Sapp was born on the Red Pheasant Reserve, south of the city of North Battleford. His mother suffered from tuberculosis and died during his adolescence. Sapp was raised by his maternal grandmother and grandfather, Albert and Maggie Soonias. As a child he was often ill and spent long hours in bed.University of Saskatchewan. Indian and Northern Curriculum Resources Centre. Indian, Metis and Eskimo Leaders in Contemporary Canada'. Indian and Northern Curriculum Resources Centre, College of Education, University of Saskatchewan; 1972*. His grandmother nurtured him and encouraged his love of drawing, while teaching ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judd Palmer ''
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Kevin Major
Kevin Major (born September 12, 1949) is a Canadian author who lives in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador with his wife. He writes for both young people and adults, including fiction, literary non-fiction, poetry, and plays. Major was born and raised in Stephenville, Newfoundland. He later moved to St. John's where he attended Memorial University of Newfoundland. Before becoming a writer, he taught school in several parts of the province, including the Eastport Peninsula in Bonavista Bay. His early novels are known for exploring issues such as adolescence and family. The novels were usually set on the island of Newfoundland. In 1992, he was awarded the Vicky Metcalf Award for his body of work. His more recent books are mostly adult fiction. Bibliography * 1978 – ''Hold Fast'' , (nominated: Books in Canada First Novel Award; winner: Governor General's Award, Book-of-the-Year CACL, Ruth Schwartz Award; placed on Hans Christian Honour List) * 1980 – ''Far From Shore'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Haworth-Attard
Barbara Haworth-Attard (born July 25, 1953) is a Canadian children's writer who lives in London, Ontario, Canada. Works *''The Three Wishbells'' - 1995 *''Dark of the Moon'' - 1995 *''Home Child'' - 1996 *''TruthSinger'' - 1996 *''Buried Treasure'' - 1998 *''WyndMagic'' - 1999 *''Love-Lies-Bleeding'' - 1999 *''Flying Geese'' - 2001 *''Irish Chain'' - 2002 *''Theories of Relativity'' - 2003 (nominated for a Governor General's Award) *''A Trail of Broken Dreams: The Gold Rush Diary of Harriet Palmer (Dear Canada ''Dear Canada'' is a series of historical novels marketed at kids first published in 2001 and continuing to the present. The books are published by Scholastic Canada Ltd. They are similar to the ''Dear America'' series, with each book written in ...)'' - 2004 *''Forget-Me-Not'' - 2005 *''A Is For Angst'' - 2007 *''My Life from Air-Bras to Zits'' - 2009 *''Haunted'' - 2009 *''To Stand on My Own: The Polio Epidemic Diary of Noreen Robertson (Dear Canada)'' - 2010 Refe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Ellis (author)
Sarah Ellis (born 19 May 1952) is a Canadian children's writer and librarian. She was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, and attended the University of British Columbia where she received her Bachelor of Arts honours in 1973 and a Master of Library Science in 1975. She also attended the Centre for the Study of Children's Literature, Simmons College in Boston in 1980. She has been a librarian in Toronto and Vancouver. She has also written reviews for ''Quill and Quire''. She teaches writing at the Vermont College of Fine Arts and is a masthead reviewer for The Hornbook. Ellis has said that she gets her ideas from "Memories, anecdotes people tell me, radio interviews, dreams, newspaper articles, family stories, being curious, observing the world, paying attention." Ellis is a strong advocate for children’s literature and she belongs to many different clubs and unions such as the Writers' Union of Canada, the Vancouver Children's Literature Roundtable, Children's Writers and I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glen Huser
Glen Huser (born 1 February 1943 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian fiction writer. Vancouver School of Art, second year qualification, 1965; University of Alberta, BEd (with distinction), 1970, M.A., 1988. Career Huser completed two years in teacher Education at the University of Alberta before starting his first career as a teacher at Rosslyn Junior High School in Edmonton, where he taught art and English for three years. During this time he took on a part-time job reviewing films for ''The Edmontonian'', a weekly community and entertainment magazine. After spending a winter term at the Vancouver School of Art (1964–1965), he returned to Edmonton, taught for one year at Highlands Junior High School, and then worked as a classroom teacher at McArthur Elementary School from 1967 to 1969. Following another year of study at the University of Alberta, he began a career as a teacher-librarian in Holyrood, Lendrum, Homesteader, Kirkness, and Overlanders Schools. In 1978, he dev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ross King (author)
Ross King (born July 16, 1962) is a Canadian novelist and non-fiction writer. He began his career by writing two works of historical fiction in the 1990s, later turning to non-fiction, and has since written several critically acclaimed and best-selling historical works. Career and works King was born in Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada and was raised in the nearby village of North Portal. He received his undergraduate university education at the University of Regina, where in 1984 he completed a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in English Literature. Continuing his studies at the University of Regina, he received a Master of Arts degree in 1986 upon completing a thesis on the poet T. S. Eliot. Later he achieved a PhD from York University in Toronto (1992), where he specialized in eighteenth-century English literature. King moved to England to take up a position as a post-doctoral research fellow at University College London. It was at this time that he began writing his firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maggie De Vries
Maggie de Vries, born in 1961 in Ontario, Canada (but growing up in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) is a writer for children, teens and adults and creative writing instructor. Her 2010 book, ''Hunger Journeys'' and her 2015 book ''Rabbit Ears'' both won the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize.BC Book Prizes, http://www.bcbookprizes.ca/winners/2011#childrens, 2011 Winners & Finalists, retrieved February 11, 2014 BC Book Prizes, http://www.bcbookprizes.ca/winners/2015#childrens, 2015 Winners & Finalists, retrieved April 26, 2015 Missing Sarah ''Missing Sarah'' is de Vries's best known book; a memoir of her missing adopted sister Sarah de Vries. Sarah was born on May 12, 1969, and the de Vries family adopted her in April 1970. She disappeared from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside in April 1998. Her DNA was found on serial killer Robert Pickton's property in August, 2002. In this book, Maggie remembers her sister’s life through Sarah's journal entries and poems and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Cohen (journalist)
Andrew Zebulon Cohen (born 1955) is a Canadian journalist, author, and professor of journalism at Carleton University's School of Journalism and Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. Cohen has written widely on international affairs and on Canadian politics. His books include ''A Deal Undone: The Making and Breaking of the Meech Lake Accord'' and ''Trudeau's Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Pierre Elliott Trudeau''. Cohen was born in Montreal, Quebec. He studied political science at McGill University and then took graduate degrees in journalism and international relations at Carleton University. From 1991 to 1993, he was a visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge. He also spent a year at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin.''Ottawa Citizen.Biography: Andrew Cohen ''Ottawa Citizen''. Columnists. Retrieved on: 2009-11-21. He has worked as a journalist for ''The Ottawa Citizen'', United Press International, ''Time'', ''The Financial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |